A warm, playful and immersive adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol for children aged 3-8, with three actors, songs and projections.
A (little) Christmas Carol runs at the Barnfield Theatre from 17 to 29 December, a playful, immersive take on Dickens's A Christmas Carol made for children aged 3 to 8. It's the company's third family show in a row, following The Elves and the Shoemaker and The Jolly Christmas Postman.
The story starts on Christmas Eve: three siblings are snowed in with no electricity, and as they start to tell a story, the world of Ebenezer Scrooge builds up around them. A cast of three actors carries the whole thing with immersive storytelling, catchy songs, imaginative props and projections, filling the room with friendly ghosts, gentle humour and plenty of imagination. It keeps the focus on kindness, generosity and the joy of Christmas, and it's pitched as a perfect first theatre experience for young children — it runs for 60 minutes with no interval, so it's a manageable length for little ones who might struggle with a full evening.
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Because it's a run rather than a single night, you've got plenty of options to fit it around your Christmas plans. Performances are on from 17 to 29 December, with six different times to choose from each day: 10:00am, 10:30am, 12:00pm, 1:00pm, 2:00pm and 4:00pm. Tickets are between £17.50 and £19.50, and the theatre is at Barnfield Road, Exeter, EX1 1SN.
